The files in this directory constitute the exportable CMU Computer Science department additions to the C runtime library. They are part of the CMU CS runtime library by default, but may be exported separately as LIBCS. Descriptions of user-callable routines are as follows: execute process and wait for exit: run run ala execl runv run ala execv runp run from path ala execlp runvp run from path ala execvp path utilities: abspath determine absolute pathname from path path break path into file and/or directory components ascii translation: atoh ascii to hexadecimal atoo ascii to octal atot ascii to time_t string utilities: folddown fold string to lowercase foldup fold string to uppercase salloc allocate dynamic copy of string sindex find index of substring skipover skip characters in cset skipto skip characters not in cset ulstrcmp case-insensitive version of strcmp ulstrncmp case-insensitive version of strncmp string table utilities: prstab print string table to stdout fprstab print string table to file srchscore perform approximate string matching stablk string table lookup stabsearch search for best match within string table stlmatch match leftmost part of string argument parsing: nxtarg strip off arguments from a string boolarg parse boolean argument chrarg parse character argument doublearg parse double argument floatarg parse float argument hexarg parse hexadecimal integer argument intarg parse decimal integer argument longarg parse decimal long integer argument octarg parse octal integer argument searcharg parse "best" string table argument shortarg parse decimal short integer argument stabarg parse string table argument strarg parse string argument interactive parsing: getbool prompt user a yes/no question getchr prompt user to select a character getdouble prompt user for double getfloat prompt user for float gethex prompt user for hexadecimal integer getint prompt user for decimal integer getlong prompt user for decimal long integer getoct prompt user for octal integer getsearch prompt user for "best" string table entry getshort prompt user for decimal short integer getstab prompt user for string table entry getstr prompt user for string date and time conversion: fdate return formated date string gtime return time_t from struct tm parsedate parse date string kernel support: vmnlist quick kernel nlist routine path searching: searchp search path for file fopenp search path and fopen file openp search path and open file fwantread attempt to fopen file along path for input fwantwrite attempt to fopen file along path for output wantread attempt to open file along path for input wantwrite attempt to open file along path for output password file matching: getpwwho lookup user using liberal matching getpwambig return ambiguous matches from getpwwho file moving/copying: movefile change name of file ffilecopy very fast buffered file copy filecopy very fast file copy random utilities: bsearch binary search ala qsort ci command interface del interrupt handler dfork "double" fork editor invoke preferred editor for user errmsg return error message string expand expand wildcard filename pattern fgetpass read password from file or terminal gethostattr get attributes of current host getname get name from user-id putenv add variable to environment quit exit program with error message setpath "smart" path modification interface
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.
